[Nut-upsuser] ups services not starting at boot time

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 11/01/2022 21.22, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 1/11/22 11:46, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>> Jan 11 19:29:19 e7.eyal.emu.id.au upsdrvctl[1612]: Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.41 (2.7.4)
>> Jan 11 19:29:19 e7.eyal.emu.id.au upsdrvctl[1612]: USB communication driver 0.33
>> Jan 11 19:29:19 e7.eyal.emu.id.au upsdrvctl[1612]: No matching HID UPS found
>> Jan 11 19:29:19 e7.eyal.emu.id.au upsdrvctl[1610]: Driver failed to start (exit status=1) 
> 
> Here is your culprit, the UPS is not seen in the moment the driver tries to talk with it. Use a monotonic timer to delay the start of the service by, say, 20 secs or so.
> 
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html

Had a read and it is more than I am ready to risk my lack of knowledge of systemd, so I just added
	systemctl restart nut-driver
to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it seems to do the trick.

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)